Levine Museum of the New South, 200 E. Seventh St., Charlotte, (704) 333-1887 or www.museumofthenewsouth.org. Families of Abraham, through July 31. Ongoing: Cottonfields to Skyscrapers: Charlotte and the Carolina Piedmont in the New South.

Museum of York County, 4621 Mount Gallant Road, Rock Hill, 329-2121 or www.chmuseums.org. Liberty or Death, Rebels and Loyalists in the Southern Piedmont, through December. Ongoing: New Perspectives on African People and Places; Building Legacies: Connecting People, Places and Communities.

Museum of Western York County, 1716 Woodlawn Street, Sharon, (803) 927-0700. Portraits In Time, an exhibit of Revolutionary and Civil War portraits by York artist Thomas Kelly Pauley, through June 20. Ongoing: exhibit of pottery by Meyersart and Mike Lahr, and Art of the Yorksville Artist's guild.

South Carolina State Museum, 301 Gervais St., downtown Columbia, (803) 898-4952 or www.museum.state.sc.us. Aliens: Worlds of Possibilities. Seeds of Change: South Carolina and the Great War 1917-1918, through June 1, 2008. Earth and Space, opening June 15.